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Show DIGGING INTO HISTORY WITH PICK AND SHOVEL Ilecent deciphering of a clay tablet which mny add a thousand years to tho span of recorded historyfor It contains u codo of laws said to nnte-ilato nnte-ilato that of Hammurabi, by a pill-lennluni pill-lennluni Is' another reminder lliftt nrcheotoglsts nro Ilndlng stranger true stories than fiction enn reveal. Tho pick nnd tho opadc of tho explorer havo resulted In astounding revtln-tlous, revtln-tlous, suys n communication to tho National Geographic society from Albert Al-bert T. Clny, who has deciphered somo of tho most famous of tho documents. "Abovo all else, ono of tho greatest great-est surprises Is thnt tho earliest peoples. peo-ples. Instead tf being barbarous or uncultured, were civilized und pos sessed n culture of n high order," writes Doctor Clay. "Several ancient libraries nnd lm-menso lm-menso archives hnvo boon found. ClBikPIBH jkV i stesSMEL.? 'n39Hf W&rKfmSBKM6r9Gm ' 'MfllLlllflH AMMnlilllHilllliilllH jiji4hHBI cTiivJHHBBlB lhhhhhhhiv iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim Ruins of a Library Building at Nippur, Nip-pur, 4,000 Years Old.. Yenrs ngo tho library of Ashurlinnlpal (008-020 IL O.) was discovered At Nineveh. In more recent yenrs torn-plu torn-plu nnd school libraries havo been found nt Nippur, Slppnr, Larsa, Iloby-Ion, Iloby-Ion, and Ercch. Tho libraries of tho first three sites belong chiefly to the third millennium II, ft.; thoso of tho last two belong to Inter periods, "Uut espcclnlly lnrgo archives of theso documents, numbering sovernl hundred thousand nud belonging to tho third nud fourth millenniums 11. V.. havo been found nt Tello, Nippur, Drehom, Jokhn, nnd recently at Ur. "Tho Codo of Hammurabi, written nbout 2000 I), a, upon n largo and somewhat Irregular stele, Is perhaps tho most Important monument of antiquity an-tiquity of a high order. In codifying his lows, Hammurabi arranged them In a definite nnd logical order, bnsed upon ncceptcd Judicial decisions. Ip no better way Is It posslblo to become acquainted with tho everyday llfo of tho nnclent Ilubylonlan thnn by'n careful care-ful study of tho Hammurabi Code." |